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Title: Gauguin: A Retrospective by Charles F. Stuckey, Marla F. Prather ISBN: 0-88363-287-X Publisher: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates Pub. Date: November, 1987 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $75.00

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Summary: TE NAVE TE NAVE FENUA (THE DELIGHTFUL LAND)
Comment: No home should be without this. Quality art books with authoritative
texts and non-partisan integrity are rare as gold dust. This is
one. Originally published in the early eighties, it assembles a
variety of mini-texts that amount to an eloquent biography of Gauguin,
one of modern art's most endearing and confusing personalities. The
second printing of this fine book was widely remaindered, so ...
copies are available. Seek one out, and give it pride of place on your
conversational shrine. Gauguin was massively gifted, and massively
courageous in his self-sacrifice for art advancement (yes, also
arrogant and cranky and, yes, abandoned his family for a beachcombing
life in the South Seas). But ambling through his universe - the flat
planes, the violent color juxtapositions, the pithy titles - renders
one helpless. He was just magnificent. Picasso discovered tribal art
in 1907 or so, but Gauguin lost his virginity long before. There are a
few fold-outs in this volume - including the seminal What Are We etc?
and Riders on the Beach. I wallowed in this with my 11-year-old son
who practiced his Polynesian phrases while we lost our woes (his,
school; mine, life) in Te Nave Te Nave Fenua (the delightful land). I
can't watch Van Gogh without pain. I bathe in Gauguin.
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